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Korean artist Kim Tschang-Yeul, who was widely known for his “water drop” paintings, which he characterized as a way of erasing his ego, died January 5 at the age of ninety-one. Along with Nam June Paik and Lee Ufan, Kim was one of Korea’s most influential artists of the past century. Born in 1929 in Maengsan, in what would come to be North Korea, Kim in 1945 moved south, where he studied under Lee Kwae-dae, eventually enrolling in the art program at Seoul National University. Following the interruption of the Korean War (1950–53), Kim, with Park Seo-Bo, Suh Se-Ok, Ha Chong-Hyun, and Chung Chang-Sup, led Korea’s burgeoning Art Informel movement, whose concerns with nonrepresentational abstract art paralleled those of their counterparts in Europe and America. Kim’s work and that of his compatriots would prove to have an enormous impact on the artists of the subsequent Dansaekhwa movement. Kim’s work of this time earned him spots in both the Paris Biennale of 1961 and th

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